Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity by Allyson Nadia Field

Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity

Allyson Nadia Field

344 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction art history
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In Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like the racial uplift project, this cinema emphasized economic self-sufficiency, education, and respectability as the...

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